At least three dozen suspected insurgents were killed in two days of joint NATO and Afghan operations across Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, one of the highest reported death tolls in recent weeks for Taliban fighters.
Congratulations to all involved! More, faster, please.
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Doesn't look like a HIP - too small. What really confuses me is why are the rotors still turning? Talk about "slicing and dicing"...
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It'sa Hip. The angle is odd and makes it look small. It was one of our's.
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I can't believe some of those boyz in green (Afghans?) walking in the path of the spinning rotors. I guess they don't teach centrifugal force in the koran.
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[ADN Kronos] (AKI) - Afghan president Hamid Karzai has ordered security officials to arrest those responsible for recent poison attacks on girls' schools in the northern city of Kunduz and in the capital, Kabul, Pajhwok Afghan News reported on Wednesday. The move came after 30 schoolgirls were rushed to hospital on Tuesday in Kunduz, some of whom were critical. It was the third such attack in the city in less than a month. No group has so far claimed the attacks. "Fatimah has been poisoned! Round up the usual suspects!"
Karzai has directed the Kunduz provincial authorities to take all necessary measures to protect schoolchildren, the presidential office in Kabul said on Wednesday.
"The elements who commit such inhuman acts against students are the enemies of the country and they want Afghans to be deprived of education and to live in darkness," it said in a statement.
Karzai was on a four-day visit to Washington.
The Taliban has been accused of carrying out suspected gas poisonings, but has denied the attacks.
The World Health Organisation is assisting the Afghan ministry of health with its investigation of the poisonings and its experts are helping carry out environmental analysis and tests on blood samples, the United Nations said in a statement on Wednesday.
Blood tests taken from girls affected by previous attacks have not yet yielded any results.
The UN childrens' charity UNICEF is providing medication to girls who were taken ill and is working with the Afghan education ministry to improve school safety, the UN said.
"I have asked all relevant UN entities to remain vigilant in the protection of schools and of all children's right to an education," said the top UN envoy to Afghanistan, Steffan de Mistura.
Ideologically and politically motivated attacks against teachers, students and their familes and schools are on the rise in Afghanistan, according to the UN.
The Taliban's strict form of fundamentalist Islam prohibits girls from attending school but their purported spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, has strongly condemned the poisoning incidents.
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At least nine people have been killed and several others wounded in a fierce exchange of fire between government forces and local fighters in the Somali capital.
The head of Mogadishu's ambulance service said Wednesday that 31 civilians had been wounded by shelling. Sources say of those killed, 6 were civilians and the rest local fighters.
According to the Somali Defense Ministry, government soldiers raided a base belonging to the fighters in retaliation to an earlier attack.
Since last May, Mogadishu has been the scene of daily battles between government forces and local fighters -- both trying to take control of the capital. Most of the rest of the country is controlled by anti-government forces.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Al Qaeda's Yemen wing has claimed a suicide attack on the British ambassador to Sanaa, accusing him of leading a war on Muslims in the Arabian peninsula on Britain's behalf, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.
The British envoy survived the April 26 attempt on his life, carried out by a suicide bomber who targeted his convoy in Sanaa in an attack Yemen said bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda. The bomber was killed and three people were wounded.
The attack was a reminder that militants were still intent and capable of carrying out high impact attacks despite recent efforts by Sanaa to crack down on the global militant group that has seen a resurgence in impoverished Yemen.
Al Qaeda said the attack was carried out by Uthman Noman al-Salwi, and provided his picture, according to the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group which said on Wednesday that the claim had been posted on jihadist forums.
It said the attack was "a martyrdom seeking operation ... in Sanaa province, targeting the so-called British ambassador, who leads the war against Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula on behalf of his state."
"Britain is America's closest ally in its war on Islam, and it is the one which called the London Conference, in which it plotted against the Arabian Peninsula," the statement said, referring to a donor conference convened in London this year to discuss ways to help stabilize the impoverished country.
The statement also complained about Britain's role in the establishment of the state of Israel, according to SITE.
Yemen had identified the bomber as 22-year-old Othman Ali al-Sulwi, whose father said his son had been released from prison earlier this year but disappeared weeks before the attack.
Yemen, next door to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, has been a key Western security concern since the Yemen-based al Qaeda arm claimed responsibility for a failed December attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound passenger plane.
Western countries and Riyadh want Yemen, also grappling with a northern Shi'ite insurgency and southern separatism, to quell its domestic conflicts to turn its focus to the fight against al Qaeda, which they see as a bigger global threat.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Three alleged criminals and an outlawed party member died in 'shootouts' with law enforcers in Dhaka and Kushtia yesterday.
Of the dead, Rahat, Suman Sheikh and Alauddin were killed in the capital and Jibon, a Gono Mukti Fouz cadre, in Kushtia.
Rahat was allegedly the leader of an organised muggers' group.
Suman and Alauddin were in the gang of Dakat Shahid, one of the most wanted criminals, Rab said.
DETECTIVES' DRIVE
Rahat, who was allegedly involved in the murder of an assistant sub-inspector, was killed during a gunfight with the Detective Branch of Police in the capital's Pallabi area.
At a press briefing held at the DB office, Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shahidul Hoque said the gunfight ensued as detectives went to Pallabi embankment around 3:00am to nab Rahat.
They launched the drive on information extracted from Raju and Sujon, who were arrested on April 11 in connection with the killing of the ASI and a journalist.
Rahat fired the first shot triggering the clash. At one stage, he was bullet-hit and died on the spot. His accomplices escaped the scene.
Detectives picked up Sujon from Madaripur district headquarters and Raju from Mirpur in Dhaka for their alleged involvement in the killing of ASI Shah Mizanur Rahman, 35, of Nayatola Outpost under Ramna Police Station.
The ASI was found dead in Tangail on May 4 this year.
Sujon and Raju told the press briefing, teamed up with Rahat they killed ATN cameraman Shafiqul Islam Mithu.
RAB'S SHOOTOUT
Suman and Alauddin were killed in another incident of gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion at Daukinagar of Gendaria around 2:00am.
A band of youths, who were holding a meeting in a field, fired at Rab-10 officials, as the elite force personnel challenged the group.
The officers shot back. Suman and Alauddin were caught in the line of fire and died on the spot, Senior ASP Enamul Kabir of Rab-10 told reporters.
Two revolvers and three rounds of bullet were recovered from the scene.
However, the victims' family members claimed, Rab had asked Suman and Alauddin to come to Rab-10 office Saturday night over phone.
Talking to The Daily Star, Suman's mother Rabeda Begum admitted that her son was earlier involved in criminal activities.
"After serving 10 years in prison, my son was released four months ago. He was trying to get a job," Rabeda said.
She added, "Rab personnel arrested my son at their office after calling him out."
Alauddin's wife Yasmin Begum claimed, her husband had been an employee of Al-Mobarak Bus Service for last eight years.
KUSHTIA SHOOTOUT
Yesterday at about 2:45am, police from Kushtia district headquarters and a team from Detective Branch jointly raided a mango orchard in Shysthipur village where a group of GMF activists were holding a meeting.
Sensing the presence of the law enforcers, the outlaws opened fire and hurled a bomb prompting the officers to return fire.
Jibon was bullet-hit during the exchange of gunfire and died on the spot. Jibon was from Simulia village of the district, reports our Kushtia correspondent.
Police recovered a light gun and six bombs from the place.
ASP CA Halim of Kushtia told The Daily Star that the outlawed GMF committed three murders in the area between January and March.
They claimed responsibility for the murders and Jibon led these killings, he said. Six cases were filed against Jibon and three of those were for killing, police said.
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Police recovered a light gun and six bombs from the place.
Horry Clap!, a light gun. New technology from the miscreants.
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"Light Gun"
Hummm, lasers now?
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"Light gun" meaning small caliber weapon. Likely a small bore rifle.
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A judge advocate general of the Nuevo Leon department of state justice has ordered placed in 30 days detention 12 agents of the SecretarÃa de Seguridad Pública ( SSP ) of the Monterrey municipal police.
The agents are suspected of having ties with Mexican drug gangs, probably the Zetas.
The SSP is usually the command element of the Mexican Federal Police, i.e. the Federales, so it is unclear at this point if the 12 detainees were detached to the Monterrey police department, or Monterrey had its own SSP not related to the Mexican federal SSP.
The detainees are being held at the State Academy of Police.
According to the translated news report, the Secretary of National Defense funded the operation.
A company sized element of the Mexican Army raided a remote criminal camp 40 kilometers east of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Wednesday morning, according to Mexican new reports.
One suspected criminal was killed and an undetermined number of others were wounded. Several others escaped the raid.
About 60 armed effectives from the Seventh Military Zone aboard helicopters and ground vehicles were sent to the location. Reports said the soldiers encountered about 50 suspected criminals, killing one about 500 meters from the camp. The camp was hidden by trees and was just off the Monterrey-Higueras highway. It was presumably operated by the Mexican criminal gang the Zetas.
Seized during the raid:
13 light trucks
A grenade launcher
Barret submachine guns
Grenades
Several AR-15 assault rifles
An undetermined number of pistols, bandoliers and uniforms with the abbreviations of the Zetas
The report added in a separate operation, 12 municipal police agents from Monterrey were stopped by the Mexican Army who are being investigated for their presumed relationship with bands of the organized crime.
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Bet that was an interesting firefight, I wonder how long the group was under observation and how many army types were embedded in the zetas and visa versa
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Barret (USA) doesn't make a submachinegun.
Berretta (Italy) does, often the P12s, maybe others, I don't care enough to look into it. Taurus (Brazil) makes the P12 and P12s under license. Commonly in use in South America. Also made in Asia.
I mention this only because I see many news items that seem to try to link US manufactured firearms to mexican criminal groups.
Insidious memes.
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Even though the camp is near the Monterry-Higueras highway, we'll swoop in just after breakfast, from the South in these new, very, very low and loud in these nifty US made UH-60 helos supplied by their feckless, gringo US Secretaries of State and Defense. That way they will hear us coming and run north. If you see no initial movement...go ahead and fire up an OP/LP, the gunfire should get them awake and moving. Oh also, when we RTB (return to base), make sure you tell the US DEA advisors we launched just before the sun came up, used the LZ 2 miles short of the objective as they recommended, and fully employed their "blocking forces" techniques. Lastly, take lots and lots of photos of the US made captured weapons please. If there are no weapons....use our stock US weapons photos as usual. Anyone finds dope, it goes in lift #4. Any questions?
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If Mexico can hang arms trafficking on the gringos, U.S gringo government money will keep flowing to fight crime in Mexico. Extension of "never let a crisis go to waste" south of the border style.
Twelve people lost their lives in separate shootings, mostly in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, according to Mexican press reports.
Two brothers were shot to death and a woman with them was wounded in a shooting in Juarez today. Mexican news reports say the three were aboard a GMC light SUV near the intersection of Juan Pablo II and 79th streets.
Gabriel Soto Nevarez, Juan Carlos Marrufo and an unidentified 35 year old woman said to be the two men's sister were at a drive in when men approached their location aboard a white Cavalier and a gray Nissan Sentra.
Witnesses at the scene say the shooters pulled out assault rifles and fired at the trio. Investigators at the scene including CIPOL agents found more than 20 spend AK-47 rifle casings.
Five people were found murdered near the campus of Autonomous University of Ciudad Juärez, according to Mexican new reports. The victims, said to be piled up, were between 25 and 30 years old. They were found about 500 meters from the campus on the highway to Ascención Hidalgo.
Reports did not provide identification, nor the gender of the victims. Investigators at the scene say the five were shot with large caliber weapons. They did not elaborate.
Two brothers were found tortured and shot to death in the Villas del Tecnológico district of Juarez, reports say. Francisco Javier and Romän Eduardo Ãvalos SolÃs were found with their hands and feet bound and blindfolded by tape, and were apparently tortured before they were executed.
One man was found on a highway Tuesday near Saucillo, Chihuahua by his burned out Dodge Durango, according to Mexican press reports. Investigators say VÃctor Manuel Calderón Bejarano was shot to death by .40 and .45 caliber weapons, evidenced by spent cartridge casings at the scene.
A 16 year old boy was found shot to death late last night near Praxedis, Chihuahua, according to Mexican press reports.
Another unidentified adult male with the victim was found wounded and was taken to medical facilities. No other details were reported.
A former police chief was assassinated at point blank range in front of his wife Tuesday night, according to Mexican press reports. Miguel Angel Martinez Leon, 42, apparently had formerly served as Chief of Municipal Police of Bocoyna, Chihuahua.
According to a report, Leon was aboard his blue Ford Aerostar van when a group of armed men aboard a black Jeep Cherokee pulled up on him and his wife. Leon tried to escape but was shot several time in the head and chest.
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We're getting about as many tales of terror from Mexico these days as we are from Afghanistan. Hope the good guys win. It's just so hard to tell who the good guys are.
El Paso Times article which provides better detail over the kidnapping and subsequent murder of three men.
Writing a lead...
Three men who were kidnapped from a wedding at a Catholic church in Juarez, then found yesterdsay murdered were US citizens, reports the El Paso Times.
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yeah, they got too much special treatment to be a 'wrong place/wrong time' sort of thing
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Drugs must have been involved. Maybe mistaken identity on the part of the family, or actual involvement?
Probably, but its also possible that the cartels are sending the US and US law enforcement a message. They operate on terror and fear, just like any other terrorist org.
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No, we've have civil unrest on both sides of our border. There was a dustup in Canada circa1840 with some riots, killings & hangings afterward. Some of my distant cousins of French Canadian descent suddenly vanished from the records there & men with the same name suddenly appeared in Minnesota. Pancho Villa shot up Columbus NM as part of the revolutionary chaos south of the border, and there were refugee camps for Mexicans in the US for a short period.
[Dawn] Two young girls were killed on Wednesday when a hand grenade exploded while they were playing on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.
The incident took place in the Khazana area where small children were playing on a building site.
"An unknown person threw a hand grenade at a house under construction in Khazana, killing two girls aged four and six," senior police official Mohammad Karim Khan told AFP.
A three-year-old boy and six-year-old girl sustained injuries and were taken to hospital in Peshawar, he added.
Police said there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Sher Khan, father of the six-year-old girl who died, blamed the attack on local criminals who allegedly threatened to kill his children unless he handed over thousands of dollars.
"I was receiving threats from a local criminal group to pay 500,000 rupees (nearly 6,000 dollars)," Khan told AFP.
"I don't know who these people are as there are several criminal groups operating in the area," he said. "These people killed my daughter and niece."
Peshawar lies on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, which Washington has branded a global headquarters of Al-Qaeda, and has been hard hit by bomb attacks and shootings blamed on Taliban militants.
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I am beginning to think the Islamists are really a bunch of antifeminist pedaphiles who prefer little boys over little girls.
They figure that the less little girls there are the more willing participants in their deviant behavior there will be.
Perverts, deviants and antisocial personality disorders abound among the Islamofascists as well as a lot of borderline personality disorders.
I don't think psychotherapy will work...more like like a lead pill between the eyes will work the best.
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If they keep this up there'll be no need to exterminate them, no women, no children, no adults, they're trying hard to exterminate themselves for us.
(It's written in the Koran somewhere, you can look it up, Girls got COOTIES.)
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[Dawn] Residents and officials say the Pakistani Taliban shot and killed two men they accused of spying for the United States. Don't worry. They still haven't found our holy man. They don't suspect him yet.
The bodies were dumped Wednesday in Miramshah, the main town in Pakistan's troubled North Waziristan tribal region. I can say no more.
Local resident Ahsan Ullah said notes attached to the bodies warned others to learn from the fate of the so-called American spies. Two Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed the deaths and the contents of the notes.
The Pakistani Taliban have killed dozens of people in recent years in similar fashion.
The latest deaths come less than two weeks after militants killed a former pro-Taliban Pakistani intelligence officer after abducting him with another ex-intelligence official and a filmmaker.
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They'll NEVER guess it's the goat...
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Iraqi border guards exchanged fire with Iranian troops along the two countries' border Thursday, the first major incident between the two since Iran took over a disputed oil well in December.
An Iraqi officer was captured by the Islamic Republic's forces in the 90-minute gunfight on the border with Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, which was apparently sparked when Iranian troops mistook Iraqi soldiers for a Kurdish rebel group.
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WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces found on Wednesday a stockpile of weapons and ammunitions in northern Wassit, according to commander of Quick Response Department.
Acting on a tip-off, a force from the QRD seized on Wednesday (May 12) a depot in a farm in western al-Suweira, northern Kut,' Major Azeez Amara told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
It contains long-range missiles, 7 local-made hand grenades, 8 Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG) and an amount of ammunitions,' he noted.
Kut, the capital of Wassit, is located 180 km southeast of Baghdad.
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seems like the provincial name of Wassit is missing a question mark
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[Dawn] Three people were killed and 22 wounded when a bomb exploded at a Baghdad grocery store on Wednesday, shortly after a corpse was dumped outside, an Iraqi interior ministry official told AFP.
The incident occurred in Shula, a northwestern district of the capital, at around 7 am.
"The body was thrown in front of the shop and when people gathered round afterwards there was an explosion, causing the casualties," said the official, who pointed out the body had not been booby-trapped with explosives.
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Excerpt: This time around, the U.S. Air Force will be testing the X-51 Waverunner, which runs on compressed air that ignites fuel by combustion. The X-51 is designed to be dropped from beneath a B-52 bomber. Ahhh, the B-2...is there anything it CAN'T DO?????
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warhead in the making, which will be filled with thousands of rods 12 times as destructive as a .50-caliber bullet, targeted to shower a designated area. It is being developed for precision, speed, and range and has been designed to strike any place on the planet in an estimated 60 minutes.
Not quite Rods From God. Maybe Rods from a Lesser God?
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Rods from a lesser God?
I LIKE it.a swath of death, inside the swath nothing lives bigger than a cockroach.
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Article text said B-52. i assumed the highlighted inline was a typo. I was talking about the B-52.
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#12 Article text said B-52. i assumed the highlighted inline was a typo. I was talking about the B-52.
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Yup! Toshiba Satellite Laptop....when typing accuracy is absolutely optional.....I hate this thing....
Five suspected Islamic militants, including one of the most-wanted men in Indonesia, were killed Wednesday in shootouts with anti-terror squads in raids in and around the capital, police said. National police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters that two fugitives, Ahmad Maulana and Saptono, were among those killed in a raid in Cikampek, about 45 miles (80 kilometers) east of Jakarta.
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[Straits Times] GUNMEN in communist Laos shot dead four people in a brazen daylight ambush thought to be linked to the drugs trade, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Three of the victims died in their pickup truck after it was sprayed with bullets from an AK-47, the Vientiane Times reported.
The driver of the pickup was shot dead in a nearby rice field as he tried to flee the Monday morning attack in the capital, Vientiane, the paper said, identifying the victims as two men and their girlfriends.
Police quoted by the newspaper said the victims were carrying two AK-47s, a pair of shotguns, grenades and methamphetamine.
'But evidently they didn't have an opportunity to use their weapons during the attack,' the report quoted Vientiane Police Chief Bounthieng Chanthamongkhon as saying.
'We assume that their dispute was associated with market share in the drugs trade.' Local residents say a crime of such extreme violence is rare in communist Laos, where security is tightly controlled.
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[Straits Times] FIVE suspected Islamic militants, including one of the most-wanted men in Indonesia, were killed on Wednesday in shootouts with anti-terror squads in raids in and around the capital, police said.
The raids are the latest in a series since police broke up a terrorist training camp in western Indonesia run by a new group calling itself al-Qaeda in Aceh.
National police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri told reporters that two fugitives, Ahmad Maulana and Saptono, were among those killed in a raid in Cikampek, about 80 kilometres east of Jakarta. Saptono, who used just one name, was one of Indonesia?s 25 most-wanted people.
The two were wanted for their involvement in several bombings and planned attacks in Indonesia, including a 2004 suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy. Gen. Danuri said they were also believed to have allied themselves with al-Qaeda in Aceh.
Gen. Danuri also said that police had arrested 12 suspected Islamic militants during raids in recent days in Jakarta.
'They have been involved in illegal military training at the new terror group in Aceh and they are dangerous,' Gen. Danuri said of those targeted in this week?s raids.
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It's one of the enduring mysteries of the war on terrorism: What will become of the al-Qaida leaders and operatives who fled into Iran after 9/11 and have been detained there for years?
Their fate has long been a blindspot for U.S. intelligence. Recently, however, some al-Qaida figures have quietly made their way out of Iran, raising the prospect that the country is loosening its grip on the terror group so it can replenish its ranks, former and current U.S. intelligence officials say.
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"Replentishing it's ranks" as in allowing these guys to go back to Al-Q to head operations?
Sounds like stirring the pot to buy some more time for the obvious goal of putting together a few nukes.
It also sounds like there may be not a lot of chunks left at the bottom of the pot? I don't know.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
At least nine people have been killed and several others wounded in a fierce exchange of fire between government forces and local fighters in the Somali capital. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Three alleged criminals and an outlawed party member died in 'shootouts' with law enforcers in Dhaka and Kushtia yesterday.
[Straits Times] FIVE suspected Islamic militants, including one of the most-wanted men in Indonesia, were killed on Wednesday in shootouts with anti-terror squads in raids in and around the capital, police said.
